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Topic: Guochuan Lai (Read 1096931 times)

I have an overdraft facility, don't use it, but its still there. If it costs nought / very little why wouldn't you, could help mitigate any cashflow concerns

I believe the E & S article said that we were still in overdraft, & would be for some time.Mainly to pay wages & ongoing transfer debts.Tend to think that the "small" overdraft described by Jenkins is significantly larger than he originally indicated.

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If it was easy, it wouldn't be Albion

A wise old owl sat in an oak, the more he saw, the less he spokeThe less he spoke the more he heard, why aren't we like that wise old bird?

The overdraft thing I would guess applies to the footballing side given the football side is just one section of the business in the actual Holdings company, it could be wiped out whenever we wanted to if we chose to do so.

Expectations by this stage are lowered. I see no evidence of significant inward investment to the club, and any cash we spend is likely to be generated from sales. We have a little bit to spend, and we might loose players in the window- Dawson might be at risk. However, on balance I think we will come out about even.

Without being cruel I don't think Lai has contributed much if anything as an owner overall to be honest. I don't see that we've changed much if at all from when Peace was in charge albeit that we lost Peace who was an experienced operator as we found out to our detriment with Willilams and Goodman's failures. Overall, I'd say we're worse off than under Peace for this reason............

Lai always struck me as someone who bought the club to ride out the remainder of the existing TV rights contract and when the new tv rights kicked in this season the clubs value would jump and he would sell on at a profit.

Sadly for us he persevered with Pulis when it was easy to cut ties. We got relegated and now he's looking at a a large loss and we are worse off as a club.

Wouldn't be nice for Lai to give DM just a small budget to really push us on and get into the top 2.

After all, it would benefit him in the long run

If only, my hope is that he may have a deal in place to sell the club if we win promotion, and so a modest injection of capital could see this materialize. Failure might mean we are stuck with him for far too long!

If only, my hope is that he may have a deal in place to sell the club if we win promotion, and so a modest injection of capital could see this materialize. Failure might mean we are stuck with him for far too long!

From a business view, surely if he's main aim now is to get what he paid into it and leave, then he NEEDS the club to be in the premier league to get the highest amount of money back.

But on the flip side, Lai will be thinking what if he does put in 20/25 million this month and we don't go up, then that's more money he has lost.

He seems to trust Jenkins, so I think if he was to say we needed a bit of money to see the job through, then Lai might just give a little.